Hall of fame

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This section presents short biographical sketches of the people who were the pillars in CFD. Here is an elementary list of some of these people. Please feel free to add more names to the list or research any of the names presented here and include a short sketch of their lives along with their contributions to CFD. Here is a good resource for biographies http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/BiogIndex.html

Claude Navier

George Stokes

Daniel Bernoulli

Leonard Euler

Ludwig Prandtl

Theodore Von Karman

John Von Neumann

Lejeune Dirichlet

Spalding D.B.(needs a first name!)

Rhie C.M.(needs a first name!)

Chow W.L.(needs a first name!)

Suhas Patankar

Milovan Peric

Andre-Louis Cholesky

Richard Courant

Kurt Friedrichs

Hans Lewy

Olga Ladyschenskaya

Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier

Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi

Nikolai Mitrofanovich Krylov

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov

John Henry Michell

Ernest Oliver Tuck

John Nicholas Newman

Touvia Miloh

John V. Wehausen

Fritz Ursell

Horace Lamb

Hajime Maruo

Georg P. Weinblum

Thomas H. Havelock

A.M.O. Smith

John Hess

Som D. Sharma

J. J. Stoker

H. Schlichting

W.C.S. Wigley

Marshall P. Tulin

Klaus W.H. Eggers

Louis Landweber

M.J. Lighthill

Tuncer Cebeci

A.A. Townsend

K. Stewartson

L. Morino

T. Inui

W. Froude

......... Please add all the people that made famous contributions in you area of specialization

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